Stand for packing fruit



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APPLICATION FILED- JAN. 28, 1920. RENEWED MAY 2,192i.

1 ,382, 950, Patented June 28, 1921.

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STAND FOBI PACKING FRUIT.

APPLICATION man mmza. 1920. RENEWED MAY 2, i92|.

Patented June 28, 1921.

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CHARLES A.

BRAND, OF ROSEBURG, OREGON.

STAND FUR PACKING FRUIT.

Application filed January 28, 1920, Serial No. 354

1 '0 (6% whom it may concern Be it known that T, CHARLES ALVAN BRAND, a citizen of the United States, residing at lioseburg, in the county of Douglas and State of Oregon, have invented con tain new and useful Improvements in Stands for Packing Fruit, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to the fruit or any commodity which is designed to be packed in boxes, and its general object is to expedite the work of the packer.

The packing of fruit in boxes is mostly done by women. The boxes, when filled, are too heavy to be lifted by the woman packer, and, therefore, as each box is finished, the packer calls for an attendant who comes and lifts the box from the packing stand and carries it away. During the time that the attendant is lifting the box off the stand and has carried it oil, the packer cannot work and stands idle. If the attendant is slow in coming, the delay is serious, both to the packer who is paid by the piece, that is by the box, and to the proprietor of the packing house, and as these relatively slight delays occur in every packing house thousands of times a day, the total loss amounts to a great deal. The cost of attendants is relatively high in a large packing house and, there fore, as few attendants are employed as pos sible, with consequent delays.

A more particular object of my invention is to providea stand so constructed that the services of an attendant to lift the filled box off the stand is not necessary, the stand being so constructed that the box may be readily shifted from the stand onto a discharge frame or horse where it can wait for the attendant to remove it while the packer continues her work.

A further object is to provide a device of this character which is extremely simple and which includes a tilting rack upon which the box is supported, this rack being so arranged that it may tilt in two directions by a Simple tilting motion and there being means for holding it tilted in a direction which permits the packer to readily fill the box with fruit.

Other objects will appear in the course of the following description.

My invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein Figure 1 is perspective view of my proved fruit packing stand;

packlng of Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 2d, 1921.

,715. Renewed May 2, 1921. Serial No. 466,214.

Fig. 2 is a front elevation, partly broken away, of the main body of the stand, the box being removed;

Fig. 3 is a side elevation of the position shown in porting rack or frame and the box being in their receiving positions;

Fig. l is a like view to Fig. 8 but showing the box receiving frame tilted to discharge the box onto the rails 23;

Fig. 5 is a sectional view through the table on the line 5-5 of Fig. 4;;

Fig. 6 is a top plan view of the table with the tilting frame removed.

Referring to these drawings, it will be seen that the packing stand has four legs 10, supportinga frame 11. The rear legs are carried upward, as at 12, and a wrapping paper holder 13 is supported on one of the legs. Extending diagonally across the frame 11 is beam let. Extending across the front of the frame is a cross piece 15 extending above the frame. Rockingly sup-- ported upon the stand is a rack comprising the longitudinal rails 16 and a pair of braces 17 transverse to the rails 16, and attached to these transverse braces and extending diagonally with reference to the rails 16 is a rocker 18. This rocker has its upper face inclined with reference to the plane of the frame 11 so that the rocker at one end is approximately 1%" high and its opposite end is 53; thick. This rocker is hinged at its lower edge by hinges 9.0 to the diagonal beam i l and thus this rocker rests upon the upper face of the diagonal beam 14 and. rocks thereon. The rocker may be held to the upper face of the beam 14 in. any suitable manner so that it may rock transversely with the beam 14 without detachment therefrom. I do not wish to be limited to the use of hinges for this purpose.

The rails 16 are beveled at their extremities, and disposed in connection with the table is a discharge rack comprising rails 21 attached at one end to one of the cross pieces 22 of the table 11 and connected to their outer ends by a cross piece 23, said discharge rack having legs 24- and braces 25. The rails 16 are preferably spaced apart a distance greater than the distance between the rails 21. The rails 21, with the legs 24, cross piece 23, and braces 25, constitute a discharge rack upon which the filled boxes are discharged from the rails 16 and upon which the filled boxes rest until they are removed by an attendant,

the stand in Fig. 1, the box sup- Attached to the right hand end of rail 16 nearest the front is a light strap 26 or spring steel (see Fig. 2) extending up a distance of one foot and at right angles to the rail in a direction approximately perpendicular to the plane of the box when the latter is in position for packing. This strip midway of its length has a detent tooth 27 formed to engage a lug 28 formed by bonding a strip of metal 29, which. strip is attached to a light wooden post 30, hen this detent 27 is engaged with the lug 28, the tilting table or frame is held in a position where it is tilted forward, that is in the position shown in Fig. 1, for the packing of the box. In grasping the packed box to slide it off the rail 16, the fingers of the packer press this spring 26 toward the box,

thus releasing the engagement of the detent 27 with the lug 2S and at the same time tilt ing the frame to the position shown in Fig.

4, in which position delivery of the box to the discharge rails 21 takes place by merely sliding the box down the rails onto the discharge rails.

It is to be understood that this packing stand may be used with a grading machine or with a bin, and in these circumstances the frame supporting the diagonal bar 14 may e attached to the machine on one side and there will be no legs 10 under these circumstances.

This device enables the packer, with no ifting and with simply the touch of one hand, to tilt the finished box and slide it off onto the rails 21 of the discharge rack and instantly start the packing of the next box.

The attendant is never called, and the box remains on the discharge rack until the attendant makes his round of the packers, which ie does perhaps every ten minutes. He then wheels away the boxes that are ready for lidding or places them on the conveyor. N here these devices are in use,

i one attendant can wait on three times as many packers, and the packers turn out 20% more boxes a day than is possible where the device is not used. The packer may finish three boxes or more before any need be 4 taken away, and T have illustrated the discharge rack as being adapted to hold three boxes.

Preferably the stand will. be made of wood and the tracks or rails 16 and 23 will he of hard wood, well oiled, (if course, however, I do not wish to be limited to the details of construction nor to the material from which the device is made.

I claim V 1. A packing stand including a box supporting rack and a discharge rack, the box supporting rack; being tiltably mounted to be shifted from a receiving position to a position where it is tilted downward toward the discharge rack.

8. A packing stand including a supporting frame, a box supporting rack and a discharge rack, the box supporting rack and the discharge rack having rails, the box supporting rack being mounted for tilting movement on a line diagonal to the direction of the discharge rack rails.

4. A packing stand comprising a supporting frame, a box supporting rack and a discharge rack, the box supporting rack having rails extending parallel to and overlapping the rails of the discharge rack, the box supporting rack being mounted upon the frame and being disposed in a plane at an angle to a horizontal plane and being tiltable on a fulcrum extending diagonally to the tracks of the discharge rack.

5. A packing stand comprising a supporting frame, a box supporting rack and a discharge rack, the latter having a pair of rails extending parallel to the front of the supporting frame, the box supporting rack being mounted above the supporting frame and having rails extending parallel to the rails of the discharge rack, the supporting 7 frame having a member extending diagonally with relation to the front of the frame and with relation to the tracks of the discharge rack, the box supporting rack having a member extending diagonally to the tracks of said box supporting rack and resting upon the first named diagonal member, one of said diagonal members having its face confronting the other'diagonal member disposed at an inclination downward toward the front of the stand whereby the box supporting rack will be disposed at an inclination to the horizontal in all positions.

6. A packing stand comprising a supporting frame, box supporting rack and a discharge rack, the latter having a pair of rails extending parallel tothe front of the supporting frame, the box supporting rack being mounted above the supporting frame and having rails extending parallel to the rails of the discharge rack, the supporting frame having a member extending diagonally with relation to the front of the frame and witl relation to the tracks of the discharge rack, the box supporting rack having a member extending diagonally to the tracks of said box supporting rack and resting upon the first named diagonal member, one of said diagonal members having its face confrontinglthe other diagonal mem-' box supporting rack will be disposed at an inclination to the horizontal in all positions, and a latch detachably holding the box supporting rack at an inclination downward and toward the front of the frame.

7. A packing stand comprising a supporting frame, a box supporting rack and a discharge rack, the latter having a pair of rails extending parallel to the front of the supporting frame, the box supporting rack being mounted above the supporting frame and having rails extending parallel to the rails of the discharge rack, the supporting frame having a member extending diagonally with relation to the front of the frame and with relation to the tracks of the discharge rack, the box supporting rack having a member extending diagonally to the taclrs of said box supporting rack and resting upon the first named diagonal member, one of said diagonal members having its face confronting the other diagonal member disposed at an inclination downward toward the front of the stand whereby the box supporting rack will be disposed at an inclination to the horizontal in all positions, and a latch detachably holding the box supporting rack at an inclination downward and toward the front of the frame, the front of the frame being provided with an upwardly projecting member against which the box rests to prevent the box from sliding off the box supporting rack.

8. A packing stand including a supporting frame, a discharge rack laterally disposed with relation to the supporting frame and having rails extending toward the supporting frame and parallel to the front thereof, the supporting frame having a member extending diagonally with reference to the front of the frame and diagonally with reference to the rails of the discharge rack, and a box supporting rack disposed upon the frame and comprising rails extending parallel to the first named rails, one of said rails extending parallel to the front of the supporting frame, transverse members connecting said rails, and a diagonal member attached to said transverse rails and projecting below the same and bearing against the diagonal member of the supporting frame, the diagonal member of the rack being thicker at its rear end than at its front end and having its under edge formed to provide a fulcrum upon which the rack rocks, and means for detachably holding the box rack with its front rail parallel to and resting upon the front of the supporting frame.

9. A packing stand including a supporting frame, a discharge rack laterally disposed with relation to the supporting frame and having rails extending toward the supporting frame and parallel to the front thereof, the supporting frame having a member extending diagonally with reference to the front of the frame and diagonally with reference to the rails of the discharge rack, and a box supporting rack disposed upon the frame and comprising rails extending parallel to the first named rails, one of said rails extending parallel to the front of the supporting frame, transverse members connecting said rails, and a diagonal member attached to said transverse rails and projecting below the same and bearing against the diagonal member of the supporting frame, the diagonal member of the rack being thicker at its rear end than at its front end and having its under face formed to provide a fulcrum upon which the rack rocks, and means for detachably holding the box rack with its front rail parallel to and resting upon the front of the supporting frame, and means for rock ingly connecting the diagonal members.

10. A packing stand including a box supporting rack and a discharge rack, the box supporting rack being tiltably mounted to be shifted from a receiving position to a position where it is tilted downward toward the storage rack, and means for detachably holding the box supporting rack in its receiving position comprising a member mounted upon the box supporting rack, a fixed member with which said first named member has rocking engagement, said first named member being released from its rock-' ing engagement by manually shifting the first named member toward the box supporting rack to thereby shift the box supporting rack to its tilting position.

11. A packing stand including a box supporting rack and discharge rack, the box supporting rack being tiltably supported to be tilted from a receiving position to a position where it is tilted downward toward the discharge rack, and means for detachably holding the box supporting rack in its receiving position comprising a spring strip attached to the box supporting rack and normally extending upward and outward therefrom and having a detent tooth, and a fixed member having a lug with which said detent tooth engages to prevent the tilting of the box supporting rack, said resilient strip being manually shiftable toward the box supporting rack to release its engagement with said lug and simultaneously tilt the box supporting rack.

In testimony whereof I hereunto aifix my signature.

CHARLES A. BRAND. 

